On 2014-04-19 20:53:09 +0000, Benjamin Smedberg said:
What does "archive" mean, and why is it valuable? In the past, we have
archived documentation by moving it to some other web location, but it
has remained a source of confusion for people who found it.
Archived documentation is moved to a special tree of MDN that uses a
custom skin to make it fairly obviously marked as archived and
hazardous material. For Dehydra, see:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Mozilla/Dehydra
Since this code is useful for approximately nobody, I strongly
encourage us to simply delete
the docs, rather than keeping them web-accessible in some archive.
We continue to strongly believe in archiving this material in many
cases, although we have started deleting certain types of seriously
useless content.
We should at *least* make sure that the archived location doesn't show
up in MDN search or google search, *and* that the docs have an
aggressively-styled warnings about the content being completely useless.
Archived material does currently show up in search, but we have bugs
filed to stop this from happening unless expressly requested. I think
the aggressiveness of the display is pretty good now; it will get
better in the future with the addition of actual text boxes flagging
these pages. But I think we're off to a good start!
--
Eric Shepherd
Developer Documentation Lead
Mozilla
Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/
Twitter: @sheppy
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